MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Hülya Emeç – trial for “degrading the security organization”
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Hülya Emeç
CITY
Van
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2018
LAST UPDATED
08/06/2019
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Internet
News Agency
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Judicial Interference
Criminal Courts
Sentence to imprisonment
THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR INTERFERENCE
Turkish Penal Code
Art. 301

Hülya Emeç, a former reporter for DİHA, had written about Şefik Tunuç (48), who died of a heart attack after police raided his house 3 times in 2014  in Gevaş, a district of Van. Emeç’s coverage prompted a court case, in which the dead man’s widow Hafize Tunuç, DİHA Executive Board Chairperson Zekeriya Gözüpek, DİHA responsible managing editor Dicle Müftüoğlu, and DİHA Van bureau chief Ferhat Çelik alongside Emeç were tried  for allegedly “publicly degrading the military or security organisations” at the Gevaş Criminal Court of First Instance in Van.

Müftüoğlu, Güzüpek and Çelik were acquitted of the charge on August 6, 2018.

Hülya Emeç and her news source were sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment.